[nycbug-talk] Firefox release party and NYC tech community

[Pete Wright]

George Georgalis wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:58:13PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>George Georgalis wrote:
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>>>for comparison, I removed all that and installed w3m...
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>>>c11# pkg_add -r w3m
>>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//Latest/w3m.tgz... Done.
>>>Fetching http://gobsd.com/packages//All/boehm-gc-6.2_2.tgz... Done.
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>>that's good to know, is it able to handle images ok with just these 
>>packages tho?  i would assume one would still need png/jpeg/etc support 
>>lib's somewhere.
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>Why? What do you expect a text browser to do with images? download them?
>All that's done is render the ALT tag and maybe use the height and width
>for layout. The big plus is ability to render pages like what those soho
>firewalls generate...
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yea i agree, but the underlying system is going to have to know what to 
do with those binary files correct?  if you do not have a library to 
decode binary tiff files on your system, for example, then you will not 
be able to view them right.  how is w3m able to get around this?

-p

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